Faculty Consulting: Responsibility or Promiscuity?

Boyer, Carol M.; Lewis, Darrell R.

doi:10.2307/1981827

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“…Even though scholars have under-investigated the subject (some notable exceptions being Boyer and Lewis, 1984;Rebne, 1989;Mitchell and Rebne, 1995;and Perkmann and Walsh, 2008), it is possible to identify arguments anticipating a positive impact of consulting on scientific productivity, as well as arguments in support of a negative impact of academic consulting on scientific productivity. We discuss the basis for these two contentions below.…”

Section: Scientists' Engagement In Consulting Activities and Scientifmentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship between academic consulting and research performance: Evidence from five Spanish universities

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D’Este

Manjarrés-Henríquez

et al. 2014

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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This paper investigates the relationship between engagement in consulting activities and the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have been principal investigators in activities contracted by external agents over the period [1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004]. By implementing a propensity score matching estimator method, we show that engaging in consulting activities has an overall negative relationship with the average number of ISIpublications. However, the effect of consulting on the scientific productivity of academic scientists depends on the scientific fields and the intensity of engagement in consulting activities. Academic consulting is found to be negatively correlated with the number of publications in the fields of 'Natural and Exact Sciences' and 'Engineering', but not in the case of 'Social Sciences and Humanities'. When the intensity of consulting activity is taken into account at the discipline level, we find that engaging in consulting activities is negatively correlated with scientific productivity only for high levels of involvement in consulting activities, but not for moderate ones.

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Section: Scientists' Engagement In Consulting Activities and Scientifmentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship between academic consulting and research performance: Evidence from five Spanish universities

Rentocchini

D’Este

Manjarrés-Henríquez

et al. 2014

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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“…Such an income-oriented view is predominant in an older US debate (Boyer and Lewis, 1984;Rebne, 1989). It is also implicit in life cycle theories predicting that junior researchers focus on building an academic career while they capitalize on their expertise by engaging with industry later on (Stephan and Levin, 1992).…”

Section: Opportunity-driven Consultingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, it is usually seen to be of lesser academic value (Boyer and Lewis, 1984) as it does not directly contribute to research or teaching. A UK survey suggests that the barriers for academics to engage in consulting are somewhat different from those for collaborative research (Howells et al, 1998).…”

Section: Opportunity-driven Consultingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Belgian data indicate that researchers involved in contract research generally published more than their 'pure' academic colleagues while their research activities were not visibly skewed towards more 'applied' themes (Van Looy et al, 2004). Others argued that academics' decisions to engage in consulting were not primarily driven by financial motives and that consulting academics are at least as academically active as their non-consulting peers (Boyer and Lewis, 1984;Patton and Marver, 1979). Below, we therefore consider two alternative views on consulting.…”

Section: Opportunity-driven Consultingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Agrawal and Henderson (2002) found that higher patenting rates for scientists can be associated with higher citation impact for journal publications. An older literature on US factually consulting found that academics engaging in more consulting were also more productive in terms of research (Boyer and Lewis, 1984;Louis et al, 1989;Rebne, 1989).…”

Section: The Impact Of Consulting On Research Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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